Donald Trump literally said he will be a dictator on day one. There is no such thing as benevolent dictators. They don't exist. They never existed, ever. Your foresight to see what is in front of you is about the vision range of Mr. Magoo.

I sure the hell hope that Donald Trump won't be the evil dictator but I don't have any faith in him. He has not proven to be a man of any good character.

Who am I to judge him? AMERICAN VOTER jackass. We have every right to judge the character of those who are candidates and vote. That is what voting is. As with all Americans, we are victims of his treason against the United States... his levying war against it. His mishandling of the COVID pandemic. His literal stealing of government documents which belongs to OUR government with likely intent to use it as a purchasing of asylum in Russia. He's a complete fuck up and done nothing for America. Those that voted for him, do you think you are going to get more pandemic assistance? Think again. It's not happening. It isn't even in Trump's plan for his regime tenure whatsoever. Pandemic assistance wasn't even his idea in the first place. He would only line his own pocket by outright embezzling the entire federal reserve and stealing of everything in the vaults at Fort Knox. Yeah, who am I to judge him? A man with 1 trillion times more morals and ethics than that piece of shit. Who am I to judge a man like Donald Trump? A man who is a trillion times more fit to be the President and that kind of leadership than him. That fuckface didn't do a fucking thing but be a twit like the fuckhead that he is... on Twitter. How's that actual leadership? One thing, I do take accountability for my actions and inactions. He doesn't take accountability for anything. He blames everyone else. Yes, I did vote for Kamala Harris not Donald Trump. I never voted for that piece of shit in every election he ran for. Why? He doesn't have the qualities for being President of the United States. I have higher standards of expectations for such leadership roles. I might not vote myself. Personally, I do not want the job of President or the lifelong consequence that would have. Donald Trump isn't running for election to serve this country. He ran to pardon himself and avoid jail and prison and to commit more crimes while in office with absolute immunity. You sound like a Trump voter because you worship him as a god by praising him for qualities he doesn't even have. That's part of what is called idol worshipping.

the majority are dumb cunts tho... not really a good position. Enjoy more school shootings!

No, it isn't the majority of voters only the majority of those that bothered to show up. Trump had around the same numbers as 2020 show up... something around 72-74 Million. Joe Biden had over 80 Million voters in 2020. Some 10-15 Million voters didn't even show up to vote during this election that voted 4 years ago, but wouldn't vote in 2024. That's what I am talking about. He won because of too many no shows. Too many didn't show up to vote. Had they showed up as they did 4 years ago, Donald Trump would have possibly loss the election. So those 72-74 million that voted for Donald Trump, you guys like the idea of no longer having the freedom of speech, your guns (they will be taken away from you by Donald Trump... every dictator disarms his slaves which is YOU through military armed confiscators). Learn and educate yourself on dictatorships and what is done. Welcome to slavery... enjoy it for the rest of your life. I hope you are so happy and proud to have your wife and daughter(s) (if you have any) or granddaughters (if you have any or will have any) become sex slaves. I hope you enjoy that for the next 50-100 years or longer. Donald Trump's reign isn't going to just end in January 20, 2029. There won't be an election. The Constitution would be burned, literally. He will be placing the entire United States under perpetual martial law and all rights rescinded. What are you going to do about it? Not a fucking thing. I'm sure about that. It is telling to me that you like to see your wife, daughters (if you have any) or granddaughters (if you have any or will have any) be raped in front of you. Maybe you are that kind of sick pervert and join in on raping them as well. Maybe you are that sick. I hope not.

That was not in response to N.S., we just happen to be writing responses concurrently.

I don't blame those who vote for him. They would vote for him, anyway. That's a constant we knew and can predict. Okay, we can blame them but they are along the same numbers, in fact, a slight less than previous election. I blame the ones who didn't show up to vote in 2024 but made the difference in 2020 that amounted to 81+ Million voters that voted for Joe Biden in 2020 but amounts to the deficit of voters that didn't show up in this election resulting is a shortfall of voters. The turn out being millions less. The numbers that voted for Trump is about the same. He didn't have much loss in votes. If you consider 70-80% of Republicans (just like the Democrats) only vote along party line. Political parties are religions in a sense. We knew damn well, we MUST voted for Kamala Harris so we can even have a chance in 2028 or even in 2032 to vote for another candidate along the lines. I don't think we'll be having a 2028 election at all if Donald Trump carries out his dictatorship plans. We won't ever have a chance. As long as Trump was seeking and was the candidate of the rival parties with dictatorship ambitions, we needed to vote for who would be the candidate that could win. Kamala gets some 70-80% of the registered voters who are Democrats for free who will vote for her because she was the candidate of the Democrat party. The same is true for Donald Trump but with the Republican party. You automatically get a significant core number of voters of your party in the major political parties if you get to be on the ballot representing your political party. That's a automatic given that has been the case, basically, since we've done elections in the United States. There are statistical constancy to be expected. Blaming voters who we knew were going to vote for Donald and consistently voted for him doesn't really look at the problem of why 10+ million Americans didn't vote in this election when it was even more important than ever to stop Donald Trump. In less than 3 months, we will be slaves under a malevolent dictator. I'm concerned about that.

I disagree, I think a great many Trump voters could have been swayed under the right conditions. In any case, they voted for him, they are primarily to blame. They do have free will, after all. 

Perhaps. we can blame them AND those 10-14 Million voters that were there in 2020 that voted for Biden but didn't vote in 2024 because they chose not to vote at all knowing full well that had THEY voted, Kamala would have had the 80+ million votes, more than Donald Trump had... and even win a number of states that ended up going to Trump. Yeah, collectively, they f---ed us. I'd expected 70-74 million voters for Trump because that's what he got in 2020. That would be status quo. These 10-14 Million that didn't show up and vote this time, those are the ones that actually cost us the United States and they knew damn well that Donald Trump was on the ballot and no less a threat to democracy than he was in 2020. Men that age don't change for the better. If they are evil, malevolent, immoral at that age, they will not change. 

Those are people that has to die before they will change or they would have to face extreme life altering circumstances so extreme it would be considered far into the realm in inhumane torture for years putting such a person near death's door for all that time in order to change such a person. I'm not suggesting that be done but is what it would take to change a person like Donald. To undergo treatment that would otherwise kill him but somehow magically kept alive to feel the pain and agony of a demonic penis the size of a blue whale shove up his ass constantly for a few trillion eons... maybe... might change him. Do you know a demon with a penis the size of a blue whale? That's probably a bad image to even visualize.

We can expect Donald Trump to seek being a dictator. This was expected of him. Blaming those that voted for him is easy to blame but 70-80% can't be swayed from voting their party line. They would commit suicide before they would vote the other party. Then you have a percentage of voters that are Donald Trump worshippers. You then only have 5-6 million out of 74 million that might be swayed but you'd only get a 50/50 change. So only maybe ~3 Million might have been successfully swayed. We'd still needed those that didn't show up to have shown up so we win the blue wall states and win win the popular vote. We needed some 80+ Million voters to have voted for Kamala. It is not realistic to expect 50-60 Million voters that voted for Trump to vote the opposing party's candidate. That's not realistic.

It would be convenient to blame those that voted for Trump than to hold those who were cowardice to not show up and vote to defend democracy from a tyrant wannabe dictator. Now that wannabe dictator will become the dictator he wanted to be at the cost of all our lives, our freedoms, our rights, etc. All of it, is pretty much gone.

Take that as a yes

Not a good look dude to declare yourself a ascistr. Good bye.

*fascist"

"I won, you lost." - I remember a character in a movie that said that. That character died.

Looking at your post and comment history, there are many areas about the architecture profession that I would agree with you. Some areas, some disagreements would exist but that's difference of opinion. Above, I was simply pointing to a particular seen and the Danny Glover character did say that same line "I won, you lost" so it reminded me of that so I pointed to the reference above without requiring you to watch the whole movie. In this case, I'm angry not as much against the voters of Trump but those that didn't show up. I expect Trump supporters to support Trump. That's to be expected. Anyway, why so many just didn't show up to the election is bewildering when they showed up in 2020. I'm like WTF. I pray that things with Donald Trump over the next 4 years will not be as disastrous and that he doesn't act on his impulse to becoming the dictator he seeks and lusts about. I also hope it would be only 4 years. I'm concerned he would be a dictator until he dies and wills his dictatorship to a designated successor instead of allowing the people to vote. Take a look at North Korea. These are case points to be concerned about. This is why I am concerned with the outcome of Donald Trump being back in the White House.

Are you sure? Who or what is there to actually stop or prevent that from happening? We don't have the courts or the DOJ to be able to stop that from happening because of Supreme Court ruling at end of June, first day of July of this year... just a slight over 4 months ago. A ruling that makes Presidents absolutely immune to any and all criminal acts associated with core Presidential functions which giving orders to soldiers is explicit and clear core function of the President as Commander-in-Chief. He can literally use military as his enforcers and carry out his tyranny with absolute immunity so he can literally order the execution of 300 MILLION Americans and won't even be able to be indicted. Who is going to stop that if it did. You say nobody is becoming a dictator. How do you know? Did you personally ask Donald Trump? What assurances did he provide. He's not President, yet. So anything he says now, he can back out. If there is an assurance he is providing by guaranteeing there is at all times 7 soldiers armed with loaded desert eagles that will be within 15 ft of him at all times with orders by him telling them to execute him if he even attempts in any way or form to become a dictator and that is their sole duties and that they are not to take any other orders from him. They are on standing orders to assure he doesn't step one iota out of line venturing into dictatorship and therefore to keep him honest. Unless he literally does that, I don't trust him. I don't exactly trust that most soldiers to truly carry out their oath given that they are conditioned through military training to obey their orders by their superiors without questioning the validity of the orders. Commander-in-Chief... aka the President is the absolute highest commanding authority over all military of the U.S. If he says jump, they are to respond... "how high?" or simply jump. They are not to question their superiors. It is this rank culture that instills the culture of blindly following orders. This is how most are trained. Most in military are enlisted. Most enlisted soldiers are high school dropouts or only graduated with a high school diploma or equivalent. They are rarely the finely educated people of our country. This doesn't mean they don't later become more finely educated but a lot are not educated with bachelors or higher degrees. It is not the case. How do you arrive at this idea that "nobody is becoming a dictator". Supreme Court paved the road to allow him to be one within 10 seconds of taking the Presidential oath. He already has the lust of dictatorships and already spoken with a desire of being a dictator. Why should I believe you on that? What evidentiary proof and measures of assurance are you providing the make assurance that nobody is becoming a dictator? SHOW ME !!!!

How do you arrive at this idea that "nobody is becoming a dictator"? 

Supreme Court paved the road to allow him to be one within 10 seconds of taking the Presidential oath. He already has the lust of dictatorships and already spoken with a desire of being a dictator. 

Why should I believe you on that? 

What evidentiary proof and measures of assurance are you providing the make assurance that nobody is becoming a dictator? SHOW ME THE PROOF AND MEASURES OF ASSURANCE !!!! 

What are you going to do to prevent him from becoming a dictator or stop his dictatorial regime? What are YOU going to do to assure Americans will have the right to vote and to elect the next President in 2028? 

We are past the point of just trusting the words on a piece of paper. It is time you get off that comfy chair and prepare to take action and if necessary fight even if it means that it will come at the cost of your own life to fight for our freedoms, our rights, and for justice and liberty for all.

What's to build a bunch of fascist nazi architecture?

You might argue that because of the Supreme Court ruling that anyone voted into Office of President would become technically a dictator because of that absolute immunity decision. While that could be a technically true argument. The point in this election was who would you trust to not act on the impulse of said powers to commit crimes without the fear of being prosecuted, indicted, or stand trial. A person that is a law and order person by nature or a vagrant criminal who is a rapist, a pedophile, a thief, and who committed treason by levying war against the United States which was designed to incite this levied crowd to go and attack the capitol on the basis of the message "FIGHT OR YOU WILL NOT HAVE A COUNTRY ANYMORE". That was what they did. He levied that war. What flag is your pledge of allegiance to... the American flag or Trump's flag? Who is your oath of allegiance with? The United States or Donald Trump, which is it? My Canadian neighbors need not answer that. This is explicitly for U.S. citizens.

Said the 15 million voters who couldn't hold their nose and prevent what is going to be an absolutely awful four years and far beyond.

I've done my share of venting about this but you know that's a good point about the propaganda. I don't have a lot of time to monkey around as I have other things to get done and just hope things pan out better than my impression as I exhaustively stated. Thank you all here for your patience on that. Yeah, I'm still pissed and angry but I can't constantly dwell on it 24/7 and shouldn't but wait. I have time to take care of orange pumpkin face in due time even beyond his mortal time. I don't have to worry, there are things in motion that he won't escape and nothing in the universe or beyond will be able to save him. He'll pay even if you don't get to witness it. You don't want to. Leave it at that. He's only mortal and his goons are, too! What they do now in mortality will cost them dearly and they haven't a clue. I think you'll have some sense of what I am talking about at least vaguely. Don't ask for the details, you just don't want it. You can enjoy life well enough without that.

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Meet the new boss, same as the old boss ...

^ Which is to say, exactly the same technically... and we will in fact get fooled again..... YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

^ comment just blew my speakers

It's even more on point of today than it was back in GWB's days as POTUS.

"A nation of pregnant god-fearing nationalists" Ramen.

lol.. yeah. Thanks for the comedy. The music has a comedic yet serious true side to it considering present context but love the comedy. It was part of what kept me somewhat sane during the previous Trump term. We're definitely going to need it !!!!

PRESIDENTS HAVE ABSOLUTE IMMUNITY TO CRIMES if it is committed under the color of core official duties like duties as COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF like the authority to tell soldiers what to do, literally. If the President tells the military to do an air strike on your home, they are required to obey the orders and the President can NOT and may not be indicted or prosecuted because the President is ABSOLUTELY IMMUNE. 

Who said that? CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS and majority of the Supreme Court Justice on June 30, 2024 / July 1, 2024 in the immunity decision. While not explicitly my words, the effect of what I said above is precisely a consequence of the very exact words of that decision. Have your head actually been up your ass or Donald's since 2020? I actually read that ruling. It effectively made the Constitution's checks & balance measures UNCONSTITUTIONAL. If the President tells the military to kill off all of Congress and all the judges and justices of all the courts in the United States, who is actually going to stop that from happening? 

The Constitution is a worthless piece of paper, now. It has no authority in the United States. We haven't yet made the necessary amendment to the Constitution to neutralize the decision of the Supreme Court. This wouldn't even be possible with our Congress and modern day politics. It requires a party to have over 2/3 of each House of Congress to pass an amendment to the Constitution to get the votes needed because neither party is willing to work with each other. Both are too extreme left and right. No one in the middle ground willing to do what is the proper and morally right thing. 

We have dumb motherfuckers in charge because we have even dumber motherfuckers for citizens in this country. The United States, the democracy is officially dead at 12 o'clock noon Eastern time on January 20, 2025. 

Enjoy the Trump Imperial Regime. Enjoy slavery. Enjoy you wife, mother, daughter(s), and granddaughter(s) being sex slaves. Welcome to your new America dictatorship. I'm just going to wait until death comes and I be done with living in this shit show, finally. Humans are stupid and America has the most ignorant & stupid people in the world per capita.  

The bright side is I only have the rest of this life to live out. After that, I would be back to my life, long LONG ago, before these stars in the night sky been twinkling the night sky. I'll have that to go to and leave to YHWH/Elohim/Jehovah or whatever the f--- that scaly butt calls himself to deal with his people......... or not. Absentee God... like an absentee derelict father has been His modus operandi for awhile. Don't expect that to change, suddenly.

I'm not your "God" and I don't want the headache of listening to all you whiny bitches. 

I agree with you IF the Constitution actually means a damn thing anymore and wasn't effectively deemed or effectively made... unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.

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bennyc, America is going to be so great that we will be all slaves and that our wives and daughters will be raped by Donald J. Trump and/or his minions on January 20, 2025. You think being a slave is the greatest thing in the world? You won't own your home anymore. Your guns will not belong to you and will be confiscated from you. You will be kicked out of your home and deported to Argentina. So, America is great..... YAY!!!! Lets all celebrate!!!!

What 2nd Amendment right. You won't be having any guns soon enough. The military will have far superior firepower than you and will confiscate it from you whether you are dead or alive. Makes no difference to Dictator Trump. Tell me how you are going to fight 5,000 M1A1 tanks, 100 AH-64 Apache helicopters, 50 A-10 Thunderbolts, 100,000 extremely well armed Army and Marines? How's that going to work out for you? This isn't talking about snipers with 50 cal. BMGs that can take out your sorry as from over a mile away. I'm not even talking about the AC-130 Spooky that can shoot spent uranium rounds and eradicate your very existence into a smear scattered over 100-200 square feet or so with those Howlitzers. Good fucking luck, Benny! They can take you out with far less resourced dedicated solely on you. This resource would be for entire neighborhoods. They can just obliterate and pulverize entire cities into ruins and 'bulldoze" it over and all that nice new real estate owned by Donald Trump. Enjoy that red, white, and blue wrapped dick that is up your ass. Enjoy!

Wow, America is GREAT and GRAND!!!! It's such a marvelous to be fucked with a smile. Do you want more lies with that order? Donald's ready to give you more lies with that order!

Nonsense. A weakened US has very little to do with Putin or a nude Melania. But more to do with the absolutely screwed up global policies we have been pursuing since at least Bush 1 and the Clinton administration.

I'm still waiting for the release of the Russian pee pee tapes ...

If Trump invites me to meet him in person, you'll get the pee pee tape!

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Angles? fucking angles.... man, those imaginary lines with their pointy bits. Don't get me started an angles.

this?

I love angles - especially if they're metal ...

Benny, you are objectively wrong on all counts. There are many different studies and polls that prove it. I'm sorry you drank the Kool-Aid and haven't figured that out yet. We have had great potential, but the reality (if you choose to face it) is different.

JCL-1 - I forgot about that!  Great clip!  Unfortunately, it's still true.

Non - I'm glad you got the joke first. :)

bennyc wrote:

"The U.S. is the greatest country in the world, its the most freedom loving, tolerant, and prosperous country in the world. The fact that there is U.S. Citizens criticizing its own country, is a sign of a progressive and tolerant system that allows for free speech and freedom of expression. I am blessed to be a citizen of this great nation, great people, and great future. I love you all, except you lefty commies with blood in your eyes."

We don't have the most freedom. 

Try harder little troll.  

BluecornGroup - I prefer acute angles but am open to most of them.

For angels, I prefer the Old Testament monstrosities that scared shepherds.    

Oh bennyc. I know who you are IRL. 

You don't make as much money as you claim. 

Your 'firm' doesn't do as good of work as you claim. 

You come here to troll to fill that gaping void in your self esteem. 

Try harder.

Serious question, do you travel to other developed countries (not including all-inclusive resorts) or have close friends or family there?

The ability to criticize one's own government is a measure of freedom, absolutely. We are by far not the only ones allowed to do so. And that freedom has a decent chance of being eroded by the upcoming administration.

Oh bennyc - try harder little troll.

bennyc - I don't believe you. BennyCustomCreations. 

I've been to 25+ countries throughout my life. Several of them for months at a time. All were just as or more 'free' than the US.

Try harder little troll. 

Keep trying little troll.

Benny, I was honestly curious, I wasn't making assumptions, that's why I asked. I'm surprised that you think it's that much better here. My wife and I are working on plans to move to Europe when we are in a situation to; we have also spent time there, her more, and we find their values to be more in line with ours.

For what it's worth, none of my clients are Trump supporters; my design focus ensures that. I used to be less discerning but I have found repeatedly that if I don't share values with a client, we aren't going to work well together.

We do public work so some of my clients are Trump supporters. None of them are racist. bigoted, wannabe militia types similar to bennyc though.

Being proud of the idiotic 2nd A is one of the most perplexing thing to come out of the US. It's not something to be proud of, it's something to be deeply ashamed of.

The 2nd A is the reason why you're nothing but hot air chest pumping idiots with murder toys. Nothing but over-compensation for so many social shortcomings. Your 2A is so incredibly stupid, shame on you for promoting it.

bennyc wrote:

"How exactly did you come to the conclusion that I am racist, bigoted, and wannabe militia? because I exercise my right to bear arms? which is in the constitution?"

I cam to this conclusion by your comments on this site.  

It was an accurate description based on the information you've displayed above. You're not the only one out there wearing those labels proudly, unfortunately. But, to a more interesting topic, I've moved away from Moleskin and use Leuchtturm books instead. More colours and I like the soft covers.

^Get the dot grid A4 (or A5?) size books. Works very well.

bennyc, you don't know jack shit about history since the "Big Bang" and even more of an absolute nothing about what was before. I do. All you know is that very little piece of history since humans started recording their events and opinions over archeological and anthropological and paleontological remains of this planet and samples from the solar system at the very best of what humans know. You know nothing about the other life on other planets throughout the vast universe which itself is just one cell of the body of the divine 'tree' of LIVING ETERNITY. That tells you how small you really are. Can also make sense why your little provincial squabbles is not for the divine 'avatars' of the living eternity to intervene with their divine supernatural powers as shiny knights to save the day every time some cunt decides to put himself or herself on the tracks of self-destructive harm.

I love those books NS. I used to use A5 size but have moved up to a letter sized sketchbook. I like the extra room and availability of heaver weight paper.

They are fine. I'm not picky about those. Some people might be more pickier than me but that's fine, too. I just don't generally use something made from animal hide or anything like that for such purposes. I think you can understand that.

You mean like the last time Trump was in office? Yeah, that went well. 

 Try harder little troll.

I thought you hated the idea of a nanny state.

Really? Cosmos... really? To me, you are just another fucking asshole... one of those Oathkeeper/Proud Boys asshole that attacked the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Ben, there is not need to bring perceived antisemitism into the equation, thanks.

He didn't win. There was voter fraud.

That is your move.

2 move checkmate. You are out of your depth. Good bye.

Even if Trump was democratically elected--just the amount of gerrymandering and voter suppression that gave Republicans a significant advantage says that he wasn't, but going along with the premise that he was--he still has ample opportunity to become a fascist. It's what his voters want; they don't want to be responsible for thinking for themselves, as a rule.

I have talked or corresponded with many of them and they don't worry about the details, just that Trump is a perceived strongman and will shake things up, and they believe his outlandish promises to make the economy better for them. He has a clear path to fascism.

And just because fascism was part of the Holocaust, doesn't mean that the term is antisemitic in any way.

bennyc wrote

"But its ok to bring perceived fascism?"

I don't think there is any perceived fascism.  Trump's been running on the idea of a demonized 'other' for his entire political career. The definition of fascism is basically what Trump does or attempts to do. 

Fascism - extreme authoritarianism and nationalism often manifest as a belief in racial purity or a master race, usually blended with some variant of racism or discrimination against a demonized "Other"

Now excuse me. Unlike you Benny,  I have actual architectural work to do. 

Bye.  

You can believe what you want. The data and metrics do not support your beliefs. 

I get it - you want to feel special in some fashion. You cannot obtain that on your own merits so you do so by attempting to gain uniqueness by where you were born. 

I find it odd that you cite racial diversity and coexisting as the reason for America's superiority.  The actions of this country doesn't support this.  Your comments here, and those you support politically make you appear to be a racist and bigot.  

Data and metrics do prove that your beliefs are not true. Also, I like how you're focusing on that and not that you support a fascist, racist, sexist, bigoted person and share his views. Very odd.

I get it.  You want so desperately to be on a winning side you'd do anything to feel special.  Good luck with that.  

Nice attempt. 

I only dislike people who attempt to hurt others and take away their rights as people. 

I don't care if people don't think or have the same view as me. You on the other hand . . . . well your posts here show a lot of hate, fear, and insecurities. 

Your posts show that you seem to hate people that disagree with you. Hypocrite.

benny, you know, being a cuck for Trump won't pay the dividends you think. I thought the deep throating of Elon was weird, but you're giving up anal without the benefit of a reach around. It's going to be fun watching you "man" the front lines of the civil war.

Mmm. With every response, your simping brings me clarity. I think I might know just the right couple of people for you. They like shaggy haired hobo types.

Aw. My little mop-haired muppet. I like it when you squeal. It makes my heart sing. My mommy? I was just speaking with her, yeah, she approves, she was just telling me about how she clipped some magakkklan into the ditch off highway 9. As for my courage, well, suffice it to say, when comes to hobo twins like yourself, I wouldn't need to work too hard, my bone saws are kept sharp.

Oh, liberal? Nah. I'm straight up red.

So you're fine with big government telling us what we can and cannot like. I thought you against big government and government overreach. Hypocrite.

You've said in past posts that the citizens own the government and it's assets. Based on that the government is telling you how to build your buildings.  

Hypocrite. 

Why don't you bennyc? You are in love with Donald Trump about as much as he is in love with Putin and Kim Jong Un. Maybe he'll accept your love letters.

He tasks me. He tasks me and I shall have him! I'll chase him 'round the moons of Nibia and 'round the Antares Maelstrom and 'round perdition's flames before I give him up!

or in my paraphrase:

He tests me. He tests me and I shall be rid of him! I'll travel 'round the moons of Centauri and 'round the Gemini belt and through the galactic Charybdis before I will serve him!

benny, Spero che la tua scatola sia sei piedi sotto terra e sia dotata di un pezzo di pietra con un'incisione che sporge da terra. Parlo inglese non italiano.

Actually you speak mostly bullshit

What is this smaarch... you are Bennyc's alter ego? Maybe vice versa. Hmmm.... you see, your fetishes with pumpkin face tribble wearing dickhead with a penis the size of a small mushroom is your problem not of my interest or concerns but keep off the lawn. I don't want Trump's pets shitting on the lawn. I don't want the Chantrelles becoming toxic.

imagine whirled peas ...

Maybe you do - I don't need to

Popcorn, he-ah. Get ya popcorn!

Impersonating another person? I know you are not Donald Trump. He is worst at spelling than you.

You call raping women and underage girls stable? You call that a sign of mental stability? If that is the case, there is something seriously wrong with you. Now, lets consider this, economics. How is tariffs that Donald Trump plans to do, going to be a good thing for Americans? Have you considered that such businesses would raise prices to cover the tariffs. Even if China raised prices, to manufacture the products they make, in America, it would result in an increase in price of about 5x to 10x what they are now all because you cost 10x per hour. The price of anything is really labor. It costs virtually nothing for the dirt. It is the labor costs. Even cost for materials is all composed of two things... "embedded labor cost" and "profit margin". That bolt's raw material cost is maybe 0.01% of the cost of that bolt. 60-80% of it is layers of embedded labor, energy, and associated material costs that was involved in the entire process from raw earth material to the finished product. The rest is the bolt manufacturer's profit margin. Then you have markups on top of that for wholesalers, distributers, retailers which is mostly profit and some labor. When exporting or importing tariffs may be tacked on. This drives up price. This is simply a government tactic to drive up costs. The problem is, driving up costs by tariffs are always passed down to consumers because businesses stays in business by making more money off their customers or clients than their expenses. In short, your customers and clients are who pays your bills and expenses. That's how businesses work. If they don't, they won't be in business for long and may have no place to conduct business from. As a business, you bake your expenses into the price of the goods/services you provide. That is why you might charge $3.50 for a cappuccino that cost you maybe 50 cents in coffee grounds and other stuff (proportionally adjusted). You got that barista working for $15-$20 an hour. So for what maybe 5 minutes to take the order and prepare it and all, that's maybe a $1.30 of labor. Now, that's $1.80 and you have $1.70 of contribution margin. From that $1.70, you have about 1/4 to 1/3 taken for taxes. So about $0.5 in taxes. So you might net profit around $1.20. Overhead accounted for that can be $0.75 to $1.00 net profit.

Tariffs would mean you have to drive up prices because those costs underpinning your cost goes up.

I just ordered 3 more.

We got the thumbs up and down... we need a middle finger one.

Here's what I must make do with in response to bennyc:

bennie, I didn't know you wanted one, xs correct?

Wow... a lot about nothing. Oregon, for example, is a vote by mail. This also means that when you register, you have to already go through a process that requires proof of ID/citizenship. One being proof of U.S. citizenship which is what you need to do. For one, proof of citizenship or citizenship status in a state requires you to prove you are who you are. You need birth certificate and such. You need to do a number of things for that state ID which would also have information associated with it like social security number. That would be already proving U.S. citizenship. To register to vote, you need to have a state ID. You don't need an ID to vote. You need an ID to register to vote. Actually, it can be a state ID or driver's license or permit. Which the latter two also serves as ID but also has the indication of driver status. Driver's Licenses are state IDs but not all state IDs are driver's license. Since not every citizen drives. In every case even to drive legally, you need to prove your citizenship. 

Even if you don't register online, you would fill out a voter registration card which requires your ID. You might say, hey, you only need to enter that or the SSN but not both. True but to even get the ID or driver's license or Permit, you need to provide your SSN and U.S. citizens have SSN numbers and that's on the ID and also will show up when election/voter registration officials check validate the ID# and there they will see if you have an SSN. The ID and SSN are linked and SSN is part of the information on the state's ID and there to get state ID, you must prove you are a resident in the state. Oregon ID requires photo taken. Voter registration can at time of submission require you to show ID at that time to validate you are who you are. 

What Counties need to do further is verify is you are a resident in the county. You have to do all this stuff by the 21st day BEFORE the election in order to vote for that election. Otherwise, you must wait. That Newsmax info is misleading to a certain degree. Very few exceptions where an acceptable identification other than SSN or Oregon ID. 

Also to note: while you can register to vote at between 16-18, you can NOT vote because you will not receive a ballot until the first election that will either occur ON your 18th birthday or after it. This is because ballots are not counted until 18. So yes, you can fill it out while you are still 17and it be submitted on or before election day or something along the line and counted at that time when you are 18. 

Another thing, signatures are compared to prior signatures of the person. I know this for a fact. Early on in elections where there wasn't a lot of signature history to compare to, I actually had to go in and verify it was me because the person thought because I had signed it a little differently because the way I was having to hold the ballot against the wall was a little different than otherwise. Of course, signatures will vary a little every time a person signs. There isn't ever an exact identicality. However, how you hold the ballot if going to be different between signing on a table. Actually we sign the outer envelop that we put the ballots in not the ballot itself. When you sign enough things, they will likely not question it if there was not many signatures to compare to. Again, they do notice things like that. Even if you omit signing with your middle name initials. This also involves ID check. So their info is a little off or misleading as it is presented on that screen. In addition, IDing people after they filled out their ballot (unless the ballot is kept and remained sealed) is a legal issue. Who you explicitly voted for is not for the government to record. 

During vote counting, the procedures are such that the those recording the votes do not know who voted for who or what issue. I might not be perfectly clear in my explanation but there is a process. That is why there is a security envelope that is signed. The parties who takes the ballots out of the envelope puts the ballots in a secured box. The counters do not see the original security envelopes with signatures. They are a separate set of people. This way, the information about who voted for who is not disseminated. They put the mechanisms in place to protect from such dissemination of information about who voted for who kind of stuff. The whole IDing stuff is for registering to vote. 

In places where you may vote at a voting booth, you might not be registered to vote until that day so they need ID to verify you are qualified to vote by age and other requirements on election day because many cases, where you can only vote in-person at the voting booth, must be done ON election day. You have to be 18 years old or older on election day. This IDing is before you get a ballot. 

With mail-in ballot, we do the IDing in advance and if we are going to be 18 years old or older on the day of election day, we get the ballot and we can mail it in or go to the county office like I do. As close as the County Office is to me, I can walk there and not worry about postal service fucking up. We don't have to ID every damn time voting takes place. 

such a worthless and simplistic Right Wing motto - how does raising the cost-of-living help anyone? ...

I didn't sat the country is RW I said the motto was - half of the country is Democratic by the way ...

actually you should make it into a bumper sticker ...

The problem with "America First" is not those words. It is the associated politics of Donald J. Trump. It is the political bullshit associated with demonizing the other by sublime inference that the other side is "America second" or "America last". First off, Republicans that are saying that is lying and outright bullshitting. First, both parties are mostly dedicated to America. What the "America First" notion is, is saying to say "Fuck You" to our allies we made since World War I not just WW II. Throw away everything that we done that built America into the superpower that it became during the Cold War. We didn't do that on the nonsense notion of doing it on our own. America became this powerful military and economy because of globalism. 

If it was all just domestic insularity, there wouldn't be companies like Microsoft, Amazon, and so on. Even Elon Musk would not even have 1/3 of the capital he has. It is because of a WORLD-WIDE economy. We wouldn't even have this global-wide internet. What Trump's mentality on America First would be to segregate America from the global world even separating the United States from the world wide web. Separating its entire information system from the rest of the world. Funny thing was, U.S. was connected to the world in telecommunication before the 20th century. In fact, we were already taking steps to joining the global stage. Global economy works best when we do business together for the mutual benefit not some insular xenophobic fuck you mindset. 

The problem with the statement of "Make America Great Again" infers a presumption that America is not great at all. That's what Donald Trump's bullshit he had been selling you. He'd sucker you into believing America sucks and not great in order for you to vote for him. He wants you to give up what makes America great so he can literally fuck in the ass with you having a grin.... singing "America is GREAT" when in fact you lost literally everything... your rights, your property, etc. All of it belongs to him and he OWNS you without paying his own money for it. 

He got people like you to pay him to buy you. He bought you out of your own money not his. He con jobbed your dumb ass so he can own the United States. It's a real estate steal he did on your dime. Now, America was great. Soon... it won't be America at all. I really hope you enjoy that diamond encrusted artificial penis that was shoved up your ass that you paid Donald to shove up your ass. 

Congrats!

so Mr. NYC Prick you tell us what it means to you - the USA just exits the world stage and become a bit player? ...

bennie, it's kinda weird that you're an architect and don't know anything about inflation, and who is responsible. I mean surely your prices for snowballing and felching hobos on the lower east side have gone up, right?

Bennyc, if you don't know about inflation and its impact and how it would impact your business when it goes up beyond the rate which people's payrate increases to such an extreme that they can't afford to build their dream project and so now they have to cancel it because it now just went up 2x what is would have cost them because some idiot starts an tariff war that does nothing by increase costs that the consumer pays... and how that would even impact you... You should be end up being a hobo starving on the sidewalk in hopes that you can guzzle down enough alcohol, meth, cocaine, and every cocktail of drugs imaginable to end your life. Maybe someone will notice you dead after a dozen dogs pissed on your corpse and people start noticing the stench and flies hovering around your decaying body. You see, if you are too stupid to consider the impact of inflation on your business, you shouldn't be in business at all. You are currently enjoying the benefits of Joe Biden's economy that he set forth. This gain you are getting of clients are because of Joe Biden and his economic policies that he implemented 2 years ago taking affect. Donald Trump's economic policies may or may not immediately take effect but it is possible for policies to have impact that is rapid and drastic that happens very quickly. Donald Trump's policies as planned would be devastating to the economy and cause prices to balloon on the order of multiples. He wants to do this to drive up rent. However, this also means there will be less new home owners. There will be less people able to afford to build new homes or buy them. So in turn, you'll find that there will be less clients and things get tougher for you to survive when the economy tanks. So yes, you will find the economy won't be like it is today. You think its bad today, it will be worse when Trump undermines what makes this economy working.

So benny, you admit you don't understand how inflation works or factors into your business, and you don't understand what it is to not care less. For it

*Got it. I'm starting to enjoy your trolling, keep going.

I just like that Mr. Casbarro says he's not trolling. He also says he's an architect. I sure wish my should would heal up so I could get ourtdoors. I'm just going to sit here and see how deep bennyc will dig this hole.

Time to get back to some PT then some painting.  

Carry on.  

First off, the inflation started during Trump's administration. COVID pandemic was still an issue during Biden's first two years. His policy changes that resulted in the economy rebounding started to show in studies about his 3rd year. That is normal latency between when a policy is implemented and when you see results. It takes around a couple years. Trump's policies were implemented pre-pandemic and then you had the pandemic itself. What drove up prices in the middle of COVID was supply logistics issues and manufacturing issues including in China but elsewhere as well. Had Trump adhered to military's protocols for response in biological warfare and the swiftness required by those protocols in November / December 2019, he could have implemented measures that would mitigate viral spread throughout the US with emergency quarantine mandates on all international travel between US and all other nations. He scuttle butt his way even denying it and calling it a hoax even until he got COVID in around October 2020. He was the idiot in charge. This lead to massive shutdowns and supply issues. Prices went up. They never go back down to where they were before the pandemic because they'll make more money with the higher prices even when the items are costing less in BOM due to logistics correcting and otherwise getting things back in order. So they kept the prices because consumers were already paying the new norm. The pandemic lasted long enough that these prices became the new norm. Donald bears some responsibility to this pandemic and the cascade of consequences that occurred.

we're so glad you're fully qualified ...

you need to get back to whatever you do ...

74 million voters doesn't say a lot. It can be that America has 74 million voters that are a combination of morons and those that only vote their political party and does no critical thinking about who they would vote for. Most Americans don't even think. They stopped thinking when puberty kicked in. Most Americans are lazy, dumb, ignorant, and don't think about the consequences of their actions or decisions. They don't care if everything goes to shit. They already think everything is shit. 

Why are you voted for Trump, in hopes to get PUA and PUEC money? Get more COVID relief dollars? You think tariffs hurt China? It doesn't. Why? They pass on the cost to you the consumers. Yes, YOU are the one who now has to pay $6-$8 for a gallon of milk when it used to cost $3-4. You would now have to pay $2000 for what you used to pay $1000 for. It is you who now has to pay more. 

Your cost of living will go up 1.5x to 2.5x over the next couple years but your pay would only increase maybe 10%. You see, it is YOU who gets screwed. Once price goes up, they NEVER go down. How is that helping you? How is that helping Americans? 

You'll lose your home or apartment and possibly become homeless because you can't pay the new rates on things. You can't compete with China labor. You have to work for 75 cents to $1.50 an hour. Maybe $2.00 in some spots in China. How would you even be able to buy any food to even live on. You'd be living on nothing but the small cup of ramen noodles for the rest of your life. That's all you can afford. No milk. Nothing else. 

At your $30 an hour, you aren't going to compete with someone that can do your job for $3/hr. and live comfortably because of where they live, a gallon of milk would be 30 to 50 cents not $3-$5. That amount of U.S. dollars goes a lot further in those places than here in the U.S.. Here, everything is inflated. 

Inflating your labor rate only inflates cost. Putting tariffs on things only inflates cost to the consumer. Businesses always pass their expenses to their customers. If they didn't, they would be OUT OF BUSINESS. They are FOR-PROFIT businesses for a reason. 

It all circles around to fuck you!

Women put up with more pain than your penis ever could.

Additionally, we can't fill these highly demanding A/E positions - look at all the job openings just on this website and all the unfilled positions on local AIA sites - my contractor associates can't fill skilled construction jobs including tradesmen - I have a manufacturing business and I can't find machinist or other factory floor employees - we have to go to robotics and imported machine assemblies from Mexico.

Bennnnnnie and the Nuts….Benny, we’ll let you know when we see real men and women, right now we just see hobo muppets simping for nazis.

Caitlin Jenner is a Republikkkan, dummy.

Tesla has only 140,000 employees world wide. https://seo.ai/blog/how-many-people-work-at-tesla#:~:text=The%20latest%20employee%20numbers%20show,when%20their%20workforce%20had%20140%2C473.

Scared little internet punk hypocrite.  

Too bad I already know who you are , where you live, and where you 'work'.  Don't worry.  I won't dox you.

Bennyc, if your last name is Casbarro then you are not a licensed architect in New York state. It is possible that you are licensed in another jurisdiction but we can look to all nearby states to New York as well as anywhere else your posting history would lead us to consider and the nearby states to those as well

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okay... lets see.

[laughter] - just goes to show you how politically warped some NYC architects can be ...

I know smaarch is an architect. I have figured out who he is. 

Lets get to the policy matters instead of pursuing perpetual hatred even to this matter. Trump has no power over my soul and he has no authority on me on any matters beyond this life of my current body my soul is connected to on this world. That aside... to the policy: 

What is it about Donald Trump's policy that you saw as a reason to vote for him? (directed to Trump voters) Don't list me Kamala's or Biden's policies. I want you to express about what it is about Trump that you wanted to vote for him.

Awesome. so now you are a stalker.
Why am I not surprised?

Now, I already knew that awhile back. I think you even disclosed it. Whether that post still exist or was erased when a thread of deleted in the past. It isn't stalking to be aware of what people say or write. This doesn't mean I am going to go out an call you or anything like that. It doesn't take a slide rule to figure you out. Connect the dots. Don't assume that is stalking. Figuring out who someone is isn't always that hard.

You're a master of bullshit. This is stalking.

principal of a firm, years of practice spanning a period of time, and all that does narrow the list down. There is two possibilities that comes close but one of two possibilities would be a better fit if one closely examines past comments which may narrow it to one being the likely individual.

Yup that's stalking. I wouldn't be surprised if dead bodies were found in your backyard. Hey I can use the same conjecture.

I haven't even said who you are. I been on this site for quite some time. Lets not draw more attention to that, okay. As to dead bodies.... sure, there might be dead lizards, dead insects, and so on in the back yard. Who the hell knows, maybe ancient burial site of indigenous populations. Who knows. We haven't went out of the way to dig up the ground to any great depth at all. So no. No human remains had ever been found on site.

Keep fucking with me and we'll see

Any half-wit with a brain that reads your past posts & comments can deduce who you are for the most part at least down to a couple or so options. You think people can't come across your past posts from a decade ago or more? What do you think "History", right next to Contact, refers to?

What? Is merely being aware of who one is talking to is stalking, now? Attention to details is now "stalking"... oh my.... welcome to the internet.

If you don't want anybody to know who you are... don't be on the internet.

If you are afraid of drowning, stay the fuck out of the pool.

Judging you as an architect.. fine but this is a political oriented thread not so much an "architecture" thread. So judging is contextual. I haven't made criticism of your architectural work. Now have I? Judging you as an architect, I'm sure you are a fine, experienced, and knowledgeable in architecture from what I can see. There is nothing to criticize on that. How does architecture play into your decisions who you vote for as President?

What is it about Donald Trump's policy that you saw as a reason to vote for him? (Question for Trump voters)

And there is your problem. This is an Architectural site.

Sure, but people have always been discussing non-architecture stuff on this site even before I was on Archinect. You know that.

You need to take that complaint issue with all the other threads about politics and such that isn't architecture discussion. 

I still think there are dead bodies in your back yard.

Like I said, dead bugs, dead lizards, but not human bodies unless there happened to be some ancient indigenous burial site deep down below the soil surface. I am not that rex guy. If I was going to leave a dead body somewhere buries, it wouldn't be where I live. That is AAA grade stupid.

Where I live was well within the ancient lands of the indigenous populations that were here before white man showed up. For more than one reason, we don't just go digging deep around here... you know... hillside... potential slide areas, etc.

While I doubt there is remains of ancient indigenous people buried hundreds of years ago given how much development in the area but I can't rule it out completely.

You really want to find out, I'll provide you the shovel. You want to dig, your problem. Want to pay for slide mitigation and geotechnical reports.... go right ahead.

If you want to pay for the archeologist if there is any ancient remains, go for it.

Nah the feds will do all of that but thanks

Do bear in mind that if you make false reports, you could face serious legal issues for that. Just keep that in mind.

you don't say! How big is your yard?

34 feet wide by 25 to 30 ft. I haven't exactly measured it from back stairs and landing decks to property lines. There is already a couple structures already occupying part of that backyard. So parts of that yard area is going to be about 10-15 feet deep considering footprint of those structures. Just guessing without looking and measuring. Me telling you the size of the yard isn't that big deal. I'm not really hiding information on that. 34 ft width east to west relates to property lines.

For starters, your claim would likely be baseless and they would see that right away. What basis would you have in assuming I would have dead bodies in my backyard?

let's go back to the beginning of this thread. You are such an asshole. I'd love to see you hang.

Yes I am an asshole. I said so. However, being an asshole in and of itself is not a crime.

You can kiss my skinny hairy white Emmy-losing ass. I fuck with people because I don't give a fuck and I'm an ASSHOLE. Repeat after me... A...S..S...H..O...L..E...

Here I am:

... just for you.

yup that's going to serve you well. You are fucking with the wrong person.

Enjoy my feathery ass:

Remember, I don't give a fuck but will give a shit (lots of it).

Remember me!

I'm not the one who single-handedly ruin the word motherfucker. Someone else more 'colorful' than I did that already. Additionally, you must have not watch Deadpool. However, I don't actually believe you are not going to come back to the post. You are a troll. I also know how to troll trolls and drive them away even if temporarily. I've already been through flame wars which would be 100x more vulgar than this.

Assholes don't care about what others think or their opinions. If they did, they wouldn't be assholes... think about it.

In other words, if I care about your precious fragile candy ass feelings, I would be lying about myself being an Asshole. I know it is annoying or bothering you when I use such vulgar, so its imperative that I don't make a liar of myself by giving a fuck. Fulfilling on my honesty at being an asshole. Now,

PAID FOR BY GO FUCK YOURSELF!

Now... Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo

EXPLICIT CONTENT WARNING FOR SENSITIVE PANSIES

Just for a most certainly disturbing Grinch Christmas song:

EXPLICIT CONTENT WARNING FOR NUTLESS WEENIES & ULTRAHYPER-SENSITIVE PANSIES

Okay, we been fucking with each other enough today. I think we can cool that off a bit. Okay? 

Keep in mind that accusing me of having buried human bodies in my backyard is offensive, by the way. I'm not that Rex guy. I told you that. This fucking around is just that. Chill a little. 

If you want this forum to discuss architecture more and not politics, maybe also address that to the rest of the forum and not just me. I'm not the only person that discusses politics on this forum. Remember that Political Central thread? There is the occasional political comments on Thread Central that doesn't relate to architecture because the posts aren't made to connect it to architecture. There are these other people here as well.

Nope I don't cool anything off.

Whatever. If you are serious about your complaint regarding political discussions on this forum, then take that complaint to the forum overall about that issue.

A friend of mine recently said that they delete their Facebook history to avoid that kind of thing. I imagine once they have it, FB holds onto it, regardless of your preferences. What do you think?

Deleting your history won't matter.  Once the info is out there it's there to stay.  The data may not be accurate (why I am getting info on Michigan, I went on that trip two years ago?!)

The important thing to remember is that NOTHING you say online is ever deleted and your real name is easy to find for most users.

I'm betting that for most users here with at least 500 posts it wouldn't be difficult to determine a real name with at least a 70% accuracy. Once someone has that they can determine your address, work history, ect.

It would be a good idea to have conversations with people online as if it was in person.  If you wouldn't say it to their face don't say it online.  You never know who you're talking to and if they can figure out who you really are.  

Good points. I'm not very secretive about who I am here, and I understand that if someone wanted to get dirt on me, it wouldn't be difficult. But it also wouldn't be very dirty ;-)

I'm the same way WG. My 'dirty laundry' would be at most leaving a shirt on the floor type of thing.

When someone uses their firm name (with maybe slight alteration), indicate their locality, and their experience like how long they been running their firm and such. Put these and any other piece of information, it isn't hard to figure out who a person is or at least a few options. It's not stalking. It is being attentive to details and simple rule of deduction.. like a Sherlock Holmes detective story. Generally, I don't take the jackassery here on a forum and hold that against anyone in "real life" unless the fucking around is taken too seriously outside of the forum or something like that. In SMAArch's defense, if I was in NYC area, I would consider working working for. He might not be my only choice of firms in the area but the type of work and quality of work are the kind I would consider. If I was in your area, the firm you are at is a firm I would consider working for. My distance and locality makes that more impractical and is no judgement on the firm you are at. 

Political party affiliation alone is not something that in and of itself would cause me to not work with. I don't see Donald Trump as either a real Republican or Democrat. He's an outlier that in my opinion is disgraceful to any party. I wanted the Republicans to have a better person as a candidate that at least aligns with their views. In either case, Republicans and Democrats had values and would not support dictatorship of an individual person ruling over the nation. Donald Trump couldn't even just say, "I am not pursuing becoming a dictator but want to be a strong leader". He wouldn't even deny his pursuit to be a dictator. He wants to be. Dictators were looked down upon by both parties. At least when both parties can get along and work together and still have difference of opinions and debate about it. 

There was some collegiality but it really started to go downhill largely since the days of Newt Gingrich and it just became more and more disgusting, on the Republican party side. Even Ronald Reagan wasn't all that cruel and knew he had a role of leading and serving a nation not just leading and serving one political party. That's responsibility. Donald is no way like Reagan. These are two very different people.

yes my comment was over the top and I regret posting it.

^wanker

Oh come now bennyc. 

You're just scared that your comments here will have repercussions in your life. 

Prove us wrong.   Post up that personal info you agreed to. Show you're not a coward.  Show us that you have integrity and that you are an architect.  

Every time I see a post from you I'm going to remind you of this.  

Naw, you don't have the determination. Especially those upcoming fraud charges you're dealing with. 

Your country won't even be better than mediocre until you have publicly funder abortion clinics available to all citizens. Until then, you're just sad little boys with guns.

I dunno Benny. You don't even own a firearm. You aren't a real American.

You going to share that info Benny? 

Hasn't happened yet. Post up those details Benny.

Post up those details Benny.

too funny ...

How many teslas do you have in your stable Benny?

Why is it ever criticism is a self own? Just post photos of your dungeon, gimp.

Post up those details Benny.

Post up that personal info benny.

bennyc, rick, smaarch?

I know I'm on the list. I'm a long-term asshole so Le Courvoisier probably already done so. As for smaarch, not sure why he would be. Bennyc... might be adequate reasons for that but what was he like in past threads... not sure.

I've only been here for a few years but bennyc has been a punter the entire time.

So you wear them Benny when you're doing your 'architecture'?

It's a bad days to have eyes.

Hey now, don't put down Benny's insta profile pic.

Oh Benny, bless your heart. I can only speak for myself but I don’t care about you. You’re a distraction, nothing more. I know you think that by responding to your posts I care about you in some way. Unfortunately for your self esteem I don’t

Donald Trump isn't President yet. He just got elected. If you think a sky is going to be falling, literally... you would be an idiot. However, no one thinks the sky is going to fall. What we are concerned with is Donald Trump becoming a dictator and ultimately the horror of that. Lets be clear about dictatorships and what dictators do upon coming into power. Donald Trump only begins to actually have power at 12 o'clock noon ET, on January 20, 2025. That's inauguration. Until then, he's not the POTUS. When dictators enter power, the first things they need to do is secure that power so they remain in power for the rest of their life. Dictators don't assume 'absolute' power of such magnitude for just a day. Anyone who believes that Donald Trump is going to give that up willfully in a day without, say a loaded Desert Eagle or something like that pressed against his temple with a firm message to him to "resign or die"... is an idiot. 

No person in history of time itself ever gives up such power without such an incentive. Humans are incapable of being so pure of heart that they would give up such power once they have exercised it. They might be able to resist temptation of the power for a limited amount of time. Donald Trump doesn't have psychological discipline for that. Once they have tasted the power of being practically a god on earth, gives it up that easily. 

You might wonder, aren't Presidents have checks and balances? Normally, that would be true. However, if the Presidents were to kill off Congress and the Supreme Court, there is no Congress and Supreme Court. He can assert a little provisions where Presidents can suspend the Constitution and effectively put the country under martial law. Another thing is, previous Presidents understood that they are subject to criminal penalties after leaving office. They knew that. The Supreme Court had illegally and unconstitutionally overstepped their authority in creating a concept that does not have a place in the United States or any democracy and that is the concept of absolute sovereign immunity from crimes. They can be immune from prosecutions while holding office but not afterwards. Supreme Court created a law that doesn't exist. It is not in the Constitution. In fact, there is no law for any immunity for criminal acts. Supreme Court had overstepped its authority on more than one occassion. One for creating such immunity for civil actions but also this year at end of June for criminal acts. The Supreme Court is not a legislative body. Interpreting law is their authority not creating them. That authority belongs with Congress. If Congress wants to give such an immunity, they would have created federal statutes or amendments to the Constitution that explicitly says so. That never happened. Therefore, the ruling itself is ultra vires. They violated the Constitution. Until that is addressed, an evil, sadistic, immoral, criminal-minded President-dictator will use that absolute immunity as a defense for atrocities. All he has to do is order the soldiers to do what he says. As Commander-in-chief, he is the highest ranking official with absolute authority over the military. If he suspends the Constitution, and habeus corpus, he can just round people up and have them shot. Add absolute immunity to crimes like ordering soldiers to execute American citizens and non-Americans (all the same to him), what's the incentive to not do so. What are you to a man who has the power and authority to have you vaporized with that particle beam weapon we have up in space that was primarily put up there to fend off nuclear missiles (SDI). Lasers that can take out missiles, you know... ICBMs, are fully capable to vaporizing human beings. He can vaporize anyone he fucking wants to. Hell, he can go about killing off billions on this planet in like a day. In 2-3 days timeframe, that weapon platform, once set up with targetting of billions of humans can kill off 4+ billion people. In 7 days, we can certainly have most of 7-8 Billion people on this planet dead. Human race being very much an endangered species. What kind of planet would there be left to have. 

If Donald Trump does in fact proceed with his plans of dictatorship and ultimately the world, who's going to grow some balls and stop him... before he implements that plan. You? No. You don't have what it takes. You think Donald Trump is going to be a nice benevolent person? You think he's going to give you a stimulus check? He wasn't going to give any of those ever... in the first place. It wasn't him, but Congress that made that happened and mainly democrats that led the aid to support Americans during COVID. Trump was merely sold on the idea that doing so might help his chances of being reelected if he played along. He was up for reelection when COVID happened. A problem that inconvenienced him. He didn't do anything at all out of the grace of his heart. 

The man doesn't know how to love anyone. He doesn't love other people. He is only in love with himself. That is not the kind of person who would care about you or defend you. He doesn't defend. He is a chickenshit coward who would not defend and protect his own family. He doesn't defend his family. He defends his business interests and personal interests not you, not me. He doesn't give a fuck about anyone. They can all die, as far as he is concerned. I have concerns about a nation being led by such a person as Donald Trump.

Oooo....the Dow is up? OMG. That's so Raven. Oooo....Mexico is going to help with migrants. Sooooo...the fuck what. You always Trumpers have ass married to mouth.

The character Hannabal Lecter is a fictional character. The character is a fiction based on a real person named Doctor Alfredo Balli Treviño. In addition, there was another person who also may have been a contributing factor of Robert Maudsley. So attributes may have been attributed while mainly based on one particular criminal but character had elements contributed from another notorious criminal.

I think Donald Trump likes villains because he is a villain.

Well bless your heart. I think you protest too much Benny.

You really are a simpleton with a lot of time on your hands.

Responding to you takes a max of eight seconds and that includes going to the site.

Bennny in fairly certain only one of us has done sexual tourism in Thailand, and the furthest west I've been is Portland.

You can always look up Benny's arrest record . . .

This may be heated but let's keep the crass language and comments out of here. This means EVERYONE.

Fair enough. My point refers to Donald Trump's pedophilia history when he ran his teen pagent and when he was engaged in pedophile conduct with Jeffrey Epstein. So my point infers on that history. That and his small mushroom as testified by Stormy.

My crass response was to Benny not you.